Araucanites
No picture of Araucanites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Araucanites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EurycephalitinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At least 2.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 164.3 Mya to 161.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 176 Mya to 159 Mya.
12 occurrences of Araucanites on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
12 occurrences- Early Jurassicunder 1%
- Middle Jurassic71%
- Late Jurassic28%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
4 formations
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The named rock units Araucanites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Araucanites and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Araucanites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Rehmannia patagoniense3 sites
- Choffatia2 sites
- Hecticoceras2 sites
- Oxycerites (Paroxycerites) oxynotus2 sites
- Rehmannia2 sites
- Ammonitina1 site
- Antiquicyprina1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Belemnitina1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Camptonectes laminatus1 site
- Choffatia poculum1 site
- Conodicoelites1 site
- Entolium1 site
- Euaspidoceras depereti1 site
- Euaspidoceras ovale1 site
- Euaspidoceras raynaudi1 site
- Euaspidoceras veranadaense1 site
- Eurycephalites extremus1 site
- Eurycephalitinae1 site
- Goniomya1 site
- Grammatodon1 site
- Hecticoceras (Sublunuloceras) virguloides1 site
- Hecticoceras lairense1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Araucanites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- Oxfordian and late Callovian ammonite faunas and biostratigraphy of the Neuquen-Mendoza and Tarapaca Basins (Jurassic, Ammonoidea, Western South-America)7
- The ammonite fauna of the La Manga Formation (Late Callovian-Early Oxfordian) of Vega de la Veranada, Neuquén Basin, Argentina3
- Oxfordian perisphinctid ammonites from Chacay Melehue, Argentina1
- New Jurassic Ammonitina from New Zealand: Bathonian-Callovian Eurycephalitinae1
Each of the 12 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Araucanites was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Araucanites, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Araucanites was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEurycephalitinae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Westermann and Riccardi)